Accidental Surrogate

Chapter 313: Sister Support 

Ella

“Ella!” I hear my sister’s voice cry the same moment I hear the front door to the house open. I stand quickly from my seat in Sinclair’s office, Rafe awake and peaceful in my arms, and move to the open doorway.

“Cora!” I call. I see her spin away from the living room where she was looking for me and jog down the hall towards me, Roger closing the house’s main door behind him as he enters as well. Cora takes my shoulders in her hands as soon as she gets close.

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“Are you

– are you all right?” she gasps, looking me over, and then looking down towards the baby. I can see a little relief come into her face the moment she sees us both before her, intact and safe.

“We’re okay,” I say, giving her a little smile. “For right now, we’re okay. Thank you for coming so late at night.”

My sister snaps her eyes up at me, frowning a little.

“What?” I ask.

“I just…” she says, confused, glancing back at Roger, “I didn’t expect you to be so calm.”

“Well, it happened like, eleven hours ago,” I say, raising my eyebrows at her. “We’ve had some time to process and plan

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hall towards us. “The way this one was pounding on my door, flying around like a bat out of hell –”

hell,” he mutters, his frustrated expression matching Cora’s. “It wasn’t exactly peaceful heading into your

eyes at Roger and then turning back to me. Roger opens his mouth to retort but I reach out and give him a little shove and turn to my sister. Clearly in a mood,

the investigators.

my phone when I woke up from my nap at 9 – and then all of a sudden Roger’s

complicated,” I say, hesitating and looping my arm with Cora’s at the elbow, pulling my

going to piss her off. “Sinclair brought in his team of investigators

you. Before I was allowed to

Cora asks,

pulling into

My sister shouts, her voice ringing out through the house. Rafe flinches

my am mers al work to settle we baby, bobbing him in my arms. “Obviously Sinclair and I don’t suspect

Cora

and wishing to mollify her because, honestly, it was more like six hours. “And obviously

to breathe in deeply and then exhale. Then, slowly, she pulls her hands down her face, tucking them beneath her chin in two fists, a gesture I remember

you, Ella,” Cora says, her voice

head at her, my eyes wide with apology. “You know that I know you have nothing to do with this just….please, let it pass.”

true, Cora,” Sinclair says, peeking out from the office. “Forgive my investigators – they were

she understands. “Okay,” she says, nodding.

in his pockets as he slowly walks over to us. “You have more knowledge of it than the rest of us – you were there. We’d like to see if you remember anything

course – I’ll tell you everything. But don’t your investigators have the notes?” Cora asks, confused, “from the

and take both of Cora’s hands. The baby calms

serious? Ether?” she asks,

do hypnosis?”

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